Author: Michael M. Rosen

Ten million bleary-eyed Israelis were awoken at 3 a.m. local time on June 13 by a siren and an unusual phone notification. “Extreme Alert!” it read. “Due to the preparations for a significant threat, it is required to immediately comply with the Home Front Command guidelines that are currently being distributed throughout the media.” Over…

What is it about the Wild West that keeps us coming back for more? Surely the popular appeal of the Western, on the page, on the stage, and on the screen, derives at least in part from prurience — the ever-present blood, guts, and sex on prominent display in an untamed land. On top of…

“What is done cannot be undone,” Anne Frank wrote in her eponymous diary some 80 years ago, “but one can prevent it happening again.” I had occasion to reflect on young Anne’s words during my visit to her hiding place in Amsterdam, a tiny warren of rooms on the fifth floor of a spice warehouse…

“I come to Israel with a single message,” President Joe Biden said during a speech in Israel 111 days after the barbarous attack by Hamas, whose terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds more, wounded thousands more, and ignited a regional war. “You are not alone. As long as the United States stands, and we will…